Home care system, center terminal and patient terminal

Abstract

There is disclosed a home care system in which a center terminal and a patient terminal are detachably connected to each other through communication lines, such as a public telephone line, an ISDN (integrated services digital network), a CATV (cable television), a radio and the like, and further to center terminals and patient terminals which constitute such a home care system. The patient terminal has an urgency transmitter device for transmitting a predetermined urgency code to the center terminal, and the center terminal comprises an urgency receiver device for receiving, while connected to a first patient terminal, the urgency code transmitted from a second patient terminal, and an urgency alarm device for informing of the fact that the urgency code has been received.

What is claimed is:  
     
         1 . A home care system in which at least one center terminal and patient terminals are disconnectably connected to each other via a communication line through which communications of data including image data are performed, 
 wherein said patient terminal is provided with a room illumination light for illuminating a room in which the patient terminal is disposed, and    wherein said center terminal is provided with a light turn-on operating means for turning on the room illumination light installed on the patient terminal.    
     
     
         2 . A system according to  claim 1 , wherein said patient terminal is provided with a light control means for controlling a light quantity and/or an illumination angle of the room illumination light installed on the patient terminal, and 
 wherein said center terminal is provided with a light control operation means for giving an instruction as to a control of a light quantity and/or an illumination angle of the room illumination light installed on the patient terminal.